Accountor has joined the United Nations’ Global Compact initiative – celebrating sustainable development goals that guide our work
Accountor is committed to developing sustainable business as part of United Nation’s Global Compact initiative. We base our activities on its ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and support its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“As Accountor, we want to be in frontline together with other engaged companies to transform development to more sustainable direction”, says Niklas Sonkin, Accountor’s President and CEO.
On the 25.9.2023 we fly the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) flags around Accountor to show our commitment to the goals and increase awareness of the Agenda 2030.
“At Accountor, we focus on the sustainability areas where we have the best capability to make an impact. Our sustainability work is built from our daily activities, not from something extracurricular. It is also important this is not only talk. We have set targets and KPIs to ensure continuous actions for these goals.”, tells Mari Vuorre, Accountor’s Chief Competence and Sustainability Officer.
Accountor’s selected Sustainable Development Goals and activities
SDG 4 Quality education: Supporting employees’ competence development and professional certification; Consistent training on compliance, ethics, information security, data protection, etc; Academies for fostering future talent, training in schools (higher education)
SDG 8 Decent work and economic growth: Providing employment to about 2500 Accountorians; Majority of employees on permanent and full-time contract; Employment opportunities for students and new talents
SDG 16 Peace, justice and strong institutions: Code of Conduct guidelines and training; Protecting our customers’ right to privacy and enabling equal access to information and justice for companies of all sizes; Code of Conduct for Suppliers.
Learn more about Global Compact initiative
The UN Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and to take action in support of UN goals and issues embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals.
You can learn more about the Global Compact, Sustainable Development Goals and The Ten Principles via these links:
